Manufacturing

Manufacturing

50% of manufacturers have suffered critical application performance problems during the last 12 months. 87% says that guaranteeing application performance is a priority to secure their business productivity.

Competition in the industry is fierce, and success hinges on resilient supply chains and ultimately the delivery of high quality products, on time and at low cost. Technological developments have enabled manufacturers to overhaul their processes, becoming more cost-effective and increasing output. However, the constant evolution of technology also presents challenges to the industry, whereby the development and integration of applications is creating excessive IT complexity compromising their productivity.

Increasing IT Complexity driven by more users, number of locations, variety of applications and adoption of cloud computing create new need for more agility and automated application performance control:

Manufacturers report that application downtime is on the rise, putting enterprise productivity at risk;

Poorly performing applications result in an average reduction of overall revenue of 20%;